*The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didnt exist.* Rephrasing of the phrase the finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist by Charles Baudelaire This particular news item is nearly one year old, but since it is such a stunner, I felt it needed to be re-posted here. I only found this for the first time about a week ago. File it under news items so bizarre you wish you had not seen them. I would love to hear some sort of explanation, in fact, any sort of explanation that could even remotely justify why the Vatican felt a need to christen an optical addition to their Arizona telescope on Mount Graham “Lucifer.” Believe it or not, that’s how they christened it. I would love to know WHY. The University of Arizona, together with the Vatican and Jesuit Order, announced today it named its newest high-powered telescopic instrument ‘Lucifer’. There has been a great deal of speculation, among Vatican critics, why in the first place the Jesuit Order was allowed to build a huge stellar observatory on Mt. Graham in Arizona – on holy Indian ground – in cooperation with the state-run University of Arizona. With the naming of Lucifer, critics claim the Vatican has showed its true colors, using God and Jesus as shills for their true master — Lucifer. According to an article in Popular Science by Rebecca Boyle the “new instrument with an evil-sounding name is helping scientists see how stars are born.” The article went to explain the name Lucifer stands for (deep breath) “Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research.” “And yes,” according to Popular Science, “it’s named for the Devil, whose name itself means “morning star.” However, according to a spokesman for the University of Arizona,it wasn’t meant to evoke any connotations of evil. Lucifer has three interchangeable cameras for imaging and spectroscopy in different resolutions. It has a large field of view and high-res capabilities, which allow a wide range of observations. Critics are now shaking their heads even more, wondering why the Vatican would have its own stellar observatory and why they would have the audacity to name a new telescope after the Devil himself. According to Mitch Battros some people believe “it is for the purpose to monitor a warning presented in the Bible. Could it be it is named “Wormwood” coming from the New Testament book of Revelation, saying: “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.” (Revelation 8:10, 11 –
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